Journal of Physical Education Research

01-06

Authors: CARLOS AYÁN, XESÚS MAGARIÑOS

This brief report describes the effects of a rehabilitation program on a patient with confirmed MWS who underwent a psychomotor activity program. The second edition of the Test of Gross Motor Development (TGMD-2) was used to assess movement skills development. The Childhoold Health Assessment Questionnaire (CHAQ) was used to assess the impact of the program on the girl’s quality of life. Motor competence could not be measured, since the girl did not understand the tasks proposed in the TGMD-2. The comparison of the pre- and post-intervention results obtained from the CHAQ indicated that the program hardly had any relevance in most of the domains which were assessed. These findings suggest that physical exercise seems to be a feasible tool in the management of MWS although its effects do not have a great impact on the patient’s physical and intellectual condition. Keywords: Exercise, Mowat-Wilson syndrome, psychomotricity, rehabilitation.

14-19

Authors: PINTU SIL

The purpose of the study was to find out the activities in which the secondary level rural school boys were engaged in after school hours. For this purpose a total of 364 rural school boys in-between age of 10 to 12 years of Coochbehar district were selected randomly for the present study. Each sample was interviewed to collect data for this study. No of different activities involved during after school hours was measured and converted into percentage value. Result revealed that most of the rural boys (80.49 %) within this age involved in different kind of play and games and 19.51% boys were engaged themselves in such activity which is passive in nature. Findings also revealed that most of the boys were engaged in Cricket games (49.18%) whereas 8.52% participated in Football and very few of them (4.12%) were participated in other major games like Volleyball, Badminton, Kabaddi and Handball. Very few of the rural preadolescent boys (4.94%) were engaged in TV watching during after school hours. From above findings it may be concluded that most of the rural preadolescent boys were engaged in different kind of play and games after school hour. The game they like most as their after school activity was Cricket, which was followed by football in rural area. They were not very much interested to watch TV after school hour. Keywords: Pre-adolescent, rural school boys, after school activities, recreation.

28-33

Authors: NAFIH CHERAPPURATH

The purpose of the study was to compare the speed and agility between handball and basketball players of Pondicherry University. For this purpose thirty (30) male students from Department of Physical Education and Sports, Pondicherry University were selected. The age of the subjects ranged from 18 to 24 years. The selected subjects were tested on speed by 50 yard dash and agility by shuttle run which was selected as criterion variable. The collected data was analyzed using independent t test to find out the significant difference between handball and basketball players. The result of the study showed that handball players have greater speed than basketball players. However, no significant difference was elicited between handball and basketball players for the variable of agility. Keywords: Handball, basketball, speed, agility.

42-52

Authors: JYOTI MANN, KALPANA SHARMA

This study was designed to assess the curriculum content, structure, degree level expectation and student outcomes on the basis of identified parameters in physical education teacher education programme at the university level in India. The main objective of this study was to assess and analyze the commonalities & differences in the courses offered at the post graduate level. Identified physical education teacher preparation programs of 3 institutions/university departments were assessed on the basis of identified (eight) broad parameters. The data were collected from students of four institutions and analyzed on the basis of comparison. Commonalities & differences among the identified parameters & their sub parameters were done for further assessing the opportunities provided by the professional institutions. The parameters were identified from the Physical Education Curriculum Analysis Tool, NAAC, N.C.T.E and other resources. Differences among the various parameters has been assessed which shows the opportunity for professional development of the learner. It is concluded that curriculum content is diversifying and the curriculum structure of physical education programme is meeting the needs of the professionals in the country, the programme objectives are particularly meeting the institutional goals. Further identifying the benchmarking with the international standards certain gaps have been identified for further detailing. Keywords: Curriculum, physical education, teacher preparation.